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...British aces still top any U.S. pilots. Last week R.A.F. Wing Commander J. R. D. Braham shot down his 28th German plane near Copenhagen and Wing Commander J. E. Johnson got his 28th over France. Group Captain A.G. Malan is credited with 32, as was the late Brendan ("Paddy") Finucane. Canadian Flight Lieut. George ("Screwball") Beurling shot down 31 before he was grounded, and Wing Commander Standford Tuck had 29 when he was forced to bail out over Germany. U.S. aces had a chance to surpass any of these records, but Russian Major Alexander Pokryshkin's record...
...Infantry School at the fort from a peaceful little unit of 300 to 400 students into a roaring mass-production center capable of handling 14,000 officer candidates at a time. Bradley did the job without raising his voice. Later he took over and trained the 82nd and 28th Divisions for combat. In February 1943, when things were not going too well in Tunisia, General Marshall sent Omar Bradley over...
Howard's letter had hardly been mailed before Brother Charles began telling Italy goodby. For some days, the sergeant had been slated for a furlough. But if young Howard's letter had done nothing else, it had restated a simple American credo. Even in the 28th month of a $312 million-a-day war, the still-unregimented U.S. people believed that people come first. The War Department, taking time out to judge assorted tales of loneliness, sickness and heartache, generally agreed...
...time being. Shaken by war and defeat, stained by Fascism and alliance with Hitler, the King suddenly visited Naples. Street crowds ganged around his open car, cheered him lustily, made many wonder whether his appeal to the masses of Italy had been underestimated. Next day, on the 28th anniversary of Italy's armistice with Austria in World War I, some 2,000 Neapolitan students chanted "Away with the King!", cheered speakers who denounced the monarchy's ties to Fascism. Still unanswered was the large question: Could Vittorio Emanuele III keep his crown...
...Patrick Austin ("Paddy") Nash, 80, both Nash and dash of Chicago's famed Kelly-Nash political machine; of pneumonia; in Chicago. Son of an Irish immigrant contractor, short, derbied Nash moved early to the West Side, whose con trol he gradually took over from his political tutor, the 28th (then 14th) Ward's famed Roger Sullivan. Until nearly...